Ought Quotes

2904 Ought quotes by 1598 unique authors

They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from… — Helmut Newton
One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong… — Margaret Mead
Part of the appeal was that Medawar was not only a Nobel Laureate, but he seemed like a Nobel Laureate; he was everything one thought… — Richard Dawkins
The falling apart of a man's life should make more noise. It should startle passesrby with its Sturm and Drang. It ought to sound like… — Kristin Hannah
We ought to have more people who believe in constitutionall y limited government. We have to have more people come to Congress with that mindset.… — Mike Lee
I think theater ought to be theatrical ... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's -- there's always some kind of… — Tom Stoppard
I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is… — Dawn French
This is a wise, sane Christian faith: that a man commit himself, his life, and his hopes to God; that God undertakes the special protection… — George MacDonald
No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy. — Edmund Burke
Someone ought to do it, but why should I? Someone ought to do it, so why not I? Between these two sentences lie whole centuries… — Annie Besant
The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die. — Mahatma Gandhi
A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where… — Samuel Johnson
The Democrats say we ought to give Barack Obama credit for trying. That sounds like the nonsense of giving every kid a trophy for showing… — Mike Huckabee
I have been repeating over and over again that he who cannot protect himself or his nearest and dearest or their honour by non-violently facing… — Mahatma Gandhi
Hence intellect[ual perception] is both a beginning and an end, for the demonstrations arise from these, and concern them. As a result, one ought to… — Aristotle
A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case,… — Thomas Reid
One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people I think ought to have more… — Agnes de Mille
At that point I ought to have gone away, but a strange sensation rose up in me, a sort of defiance of fate, a desire… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. — Arthur Conan Doyle
There ought to be something about computers and artificial intelligence [in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations]. Surely somebody somewhere said something memorable. — Justin Kaplan
If we should be saved and become saints, we ought always to stand at the gates of the Divine mercy to beg and pray for,… — Alphonsus Liguori
We live in a big and marvelously varied world. Television ought to reflect that. — Edwin Newman
But if you really want to get involved in making a difference, you can stay at home with your family and have a job and… — Birch Bayh
Advertising ought to work by telling you what it is you want to tell, you should understand what you want us to do, what you… — Jay Chiat
Leaders must see reality as it is, not as it ought to be. — Benjamin Netanyahu

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